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"I think that’s why fans like it so much, because they see that it’s outrageous. They see that it takes you out of your everyday life," Reid told The Hollywood Reporter.
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00:00Hi, this is Mariah Gullow from The Hollywood Reporter, and I'm in studio today with Tara Reid.
00:09Hi, Tara.
00:10Hello, how are you?
00:11How are you doing?
00:11Fantastic.
00:12You are here to talk about Sharknado 6.
00:14Yes.
00:15But as we were talking off camera, Sharknado 6 is shrouded in mystery.
00:20Absolutely.
00:21I told you, they said, right now the movie's three and a half hours long,
00:25and they have to bring it down to 90 minutes.
00:27That's including with commercial breaks.
00:30Right.
00:30You know, so they really, so we shot like three movies.
00:33They could have actually made like six, seven, and eight, but.
00:35So you have no idea what's going to end up in the final cut.
00:38Yeah, I did ADR the other day, so, but I saw a lot of the scenes that I was in,
00:42but I'm like, what happened to that scene?
00:43They're like, ah, the editing floor.
00:45I'm like, I love that scene.
00:46Oh, no.
00:48Yeah, one of the things I wanted to ask you about is,
00:51what is it like to get the script to a Sharknado movie for the first time?
00:56Like, you get the script, and you start opening it up,
00:58and what is it like?
01:00The first time we got it, I just thought it was the most ridiculous,
01:04silly movie I've ever read in my life.
01:06I'm like, sharks flying in the sky, killing people?
01:08Really?
01:08Like, I mean, this is so cheesy.
01:10It's so bad.
01:11But it was so bad that it was kind of good.
01:14And I remember going out to dinner that night with my friends,
01:17and I told them about the film, and they were like,
01:19Tyra, this is the funniest film ever.
01:20You have to do this movie.
01:22And at the time, it was called Dark Skies.
01:24So it didn't seem like as cheesy as Sharknado.
01:27And then, like, the third day into filming it,
01:30they're like, oh, you changed the name.
01:31It's now called Sharknado.
01:32I'm like, no, no.
01:33I was on the phone.
01:33You can't do this.
01:34You can't.
01:34I don't want to be an IMDB, and then I'm on Sharknado.
01:37It's going to be terrible.
01:38And they're like, trust me, it's going to work.
01:40And here we are, Sharknado 6.
01:42Yes.
01:43But to go back to your question is, there's no real script.
01:46I mean, the first one we kind of based off of it,
01:49and then the rest of the scripts, it's mostly improv.
01:53Because the lines, they would give us,
01:55every day they have new pages.
01:57We'd get new pages every morning, 30 pages.
01:59Wow.
01:59Wow.
02:00It's almost like filming a soap opera.
02:02It was crazy.
02:03It was like, this one was the hardest one we made, for sure.
02:06Because it was just, it was craziness.
02:08And you have to depend a lot, because of all of the special effects,
02:11you have to depend a lot on just the direction.
02:13A lot in that, but also you've got to know what you're kind of saying.
02:16You know, because you've got to put the storyline together.
02:18And some of it, we're like, wait, we can't say that.
02:19This makes no sense.
02:21We just said that we weren't going to do that in the other scene.
02:23So now, like, and we didn't have, like, a script supervisor on it.
02:26What is the response usually when you say that?
02:27Well, because they didn't really forget.
02:28Are they, like, first go with it?
02:29No, and then they're like, oh, yeah, you're right.
02:30I forgot about that.
02:31Like, you know, I'm like, how can you forget about that?
02:34One time in the movie, she has a fake hand, you know, and she has a glove on.
02:38I'm like, guys, the glove's not on.
02:40We have to reshoot that scene, you know, because they have to take it on and off.
02:43Because you had your real hand.
02:45And they go, oh, don't worry, no one's going to see it.
02:46I'm like, are you kidding me?
02:48They don't care.
02:49Like, no continuity whatsoever.
02:51Do you ever, ever have to stop and say, you know, April wouldn't do this?
02:55Oh, yeah.
02:56I mean, there's different characters that you know wouldn't do it.
03:00Like, there was a scene, actually, with Finn, where all of a sudden, like, a girl's kind
03:06of beating him up.
03:07Well, that would never happen.
03:08Finn would never let that happen.
03:09So we were like, this isn't Finn.
03:11Ryan had to fight for that.
03:12He's like, say, no.
03:14I don't get beat up by girls.
03:15You know what I mean?
03:16So stuff like that.
03:17We were saying, April should do this.
03:19And April's not like that.
03:20I'm like, April, like, she saves kids.
03:22And she's, like, loves, like, to save the world.
03:24She's not going to go now punching, like, people and, you know, turns into, like, this mean person.
03:29So you have to monitor, like, everyone, like, me, Ian, Anthony, and the producers, you know,
03:34and the writer, we have very big says in the movie.
03:37So we all kind of collaborate and make this crazy movie magically work.
03:43Yeah.
03:45So what are we, I know we can't really talk about Sharknado because neither of us have seen
03:50it, but we can talk about some of the cameo appearances.
03:54Can you talk about any of them?
03:55Is this going to air before?
03:57It'll air the day that Sharknado comes out.
03:59And then I can say some of the things, right?
04:00Yeah, great.
04:00Oh, that's even better.
04:02So this Sharknado is absolutely crazy because we've done everything.
04:08I already give birth in outer space inside of a shark.
04:11I mean, who could do that?
04:13I went from a normal person to half robotic to, like, a full robot.
04:17I have magical power that I can fly, laser beams.
04:20I'm like a pocket, like, army knife pocket switch.
04:24I can do anything.
04:24You know, she can hold up helicopters and, you know, save buses from, like, hold up the
04:29bus so the kids don't get killed.
04:30And she does all kind of, like, she really, one of the things I love about playing this
04:35April is that she's a superhero.
04:37And I think every actor's dream is to play a superhero because it's so much fun.
04:42You've got to do, like, this crazy stuff with it.
04:45And this one, they have, they make clones of me.
04:48So there's an April clones.
04:51So there's, like, hundreds of Aprils.
04:53And are we in the future now?
04:54Because Sharknado 5 ended with Gil coming back and taking his father into the future.
05:00Yes.
05:00And no.
05:01Oh, okay.
05:02So in this movie, it's all about time travel.
05:04Okay.
05:04So what we're trying to do is get into it and time travel to where the other place was
05:10to kind of pick up all the people where they were.
05:13And you could reverse time and save some of the lives.
05:15Some of the people that you thought were dead in the first one are back in this one.
05:19And then our son, Gil, is lost in one of them.
05:22We're trying to figure out which Sharknado it is.
05:24And in this one, I could drive a Sharknado.
05:29How they thought of the things they thought of this one, it's just, like, another level.
05:33Is Gil still played by Dolph Lundgren?
05:36Yes.
05:37Amazing.
05:37Yes.
05:38Yeah, it's just, it's hilarious.
05:40Who are some of the other cameo appearances?
05:42There are so many.
05:43There was mostly a lot of, like, British stars, was a lot of them in it.
05:47Okay.
05:48It's funny because we don't get to work with the people in the cameos.
05:51Oh, yeah.
05:52So I didn't really have any scenes with them.
05:54I'm trying to think with people.
05:56I didn't really have any scenes with the cameos.
05:58It's mostly just me and Finn.
05:59Right.
05:59They're usually the extras that go inside of it.
06:02They're separate scenes.
06:03Yeah.
06:03Other movies we had, like, my favorite person I ever did one with would be Kelly Osbourne.
06:08But she was in the scene with me.
06:09Amazing.
06:09She was a friend of mine and she did a great job.
06:11But, yeah, but there's going to be a lot of cameos in this one for sure.
06:14But I just don't, I haven't gone over the list who it is.
06:17What's it like for you and Ian on set?
06:19Do you guys get some time to kind of play around or are you, like, pretty,
06:24because you're filming most of your scenes together, so you're pretty close.
06:28Yeah, there's, like, no playtime because what we're shooting a day would take,
06:31most movies shoot, like, you know, see, four pages a day.
06:34We're shooting, like, 30 pages a day.
06:36Wow.
06:37Because it's only 18 days I think we shoot the whole movie in.
06:40Really?
06:41Okay, so that was the first Sharknado was in 18 days too.
06:43Yeah, they're all like that.
06:44Yeah, they're all like that.
06:44Wow.
06:45Yeah, it's crazy.
06:45We're staying consistent with that.
06:47That's why it's so hard.
06:49And every day you're getting new pages.
06:51So you're like, well, I'm not going to memorize these pages this day
06:53because they're all going to turn tomorrow.
06:55So it's like they're readjusting the storyline every single day.
06:58Wow.
06:58We have no idea what the movie's going to turn out to look like.
07:01But in a certain way, I mean, we time travel, which this to me is just, I love this.
07:07I think it's so funny because it's so stupid.
07:09We time travel in a pot, like a big, like how you cook soup, in a huge soup pot.
07:15Okay.
07:15And so we're driving, like, you just see the soup pot, like, go through the air and we look glad.
07:19And I remember, we were shooting in Bulgaria, and it was so cold there, it was minus 30.
07:25We were dying.
07:27Like, we were freezing with our costume, like, shaking to death.
07:30And I remember just getting in the soup pot.
07:32We're like, do we have to get out of the soup pot?
07:34You wanted to say it.
07:36Why is it a soup pot that you're time traveling in?
07:39It's Sharknado.
07:40There's no answers.
07:42Every time you don't get something, they're like, Sharknado.
07:44You know, like, if someone doesn't answer your question, you're like, yeah, Sharknado.
07:48It's just anything.
07:49And we use it all the time, too.
07:51Because I'll ask, I'll be like, Anthony, we can't do this, you know, to the director.
07:55He said, this makes no sense.
07:56He's like, it's Sharknado.
07:57I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, you're right.
07:59Just release all expectations.
08:01Yeah, exactly.
08:02That's what the fans do, too.
08:03Yeah, and they know that.
08:04I think that's why the fans like it so much, because they see that, you know, it's outrageous.
08:09They see that it's completely, it takes you out of your everyday life.
08:13Like, this is a very hard time that people are alive with all the war and all the, like, racism going on and all the bullying going on.
08:21And so many things are just bad, you know, even from the weather.
08:25And one of the things I think that Sharknado does is people know it's so silly.
08:30They get together and they have Sharknado parties.
08:33It's got, like, it's that kind of movie.
08:34I never, ever remember going to a movie, like, watching, going to a movie for a party.
08:39Right.
08:39And every year people look at it, like, how they are with the Super Bowl.
08:42It's, like, the Sharknado week.
08:44And I can't tell you, like, thousands of people have Sharknado parties.
08:47That's excellent.
08:48Like, we have such a cult, like, it's a cult film.
08:52Yeah.
08:52It's amazing to me what happened with this little film.
08:55Yeah.
08:55It still blows my mind away.
08:56It really does.
08:57Can you give us a preview of any of the new weapons that will be used on the Sharks?
09:03Um, there's, I mean, you're always going to have film with a saw.
09:06That's what he does.
09:07The weaponry with me is just all the magic that happens, you know, because I have, like,
09:13a gadget hand, so I could, you know, take it off and put the saw on.
09:15Or then I could take it and lasers come out of me and I could put something in a circle,
09:19you know.
09:20I could fly.
09:21I could, so there's, like, my body and the different attachments on it are the different ways.
09:27Excellent.
09:27Yeah, it's pretty funny.
09:29Have you ever had an interaction with a real shark?
09:31No, I never have.
09:33Oh.
09:33You've never been curious to, like, be on vacation and go to one of those shark settings?
09:38I thought it was going to be, like, a shark tank.
09:41I thought about doing that.
09:43But somewhere, like, really warm, like the Bahamas, where they have, like, not the killer
09:47white sharks.
09:47Would you get in the cage?
09:48I think I would, you know, but not the great white that's going to, like, bite the cage
09:53open.
09:53I mean, I think the sharks would want to take a selfie with you.
09:56Yeah.
09:56Four quick questions before we go.
10:01First job that made you think, I've made it?
10:05American Pie, because I was on the cover of Rolling Stone.
10:09Oh, yes.
10:10A milestone.
10:10When I was on the cover of Rolling Stone, like, you can't get bigger than that.
10:14And I thought, ah, this is it.
10:16And then one time when I was shooting, I was living in New York City, and I had, and you
10:22know how they have the newspaper stands?
10:24And I was on four covers at the same time, and they were, like, all in the shops and the
10:28stands.
10:29And I remember walking by, like, no one realized it was me, and I had a baseball hat on, and
10:33I was like, oh my gosh, this is crazy.
10:36Excellent.
10:37What do you want the best day on the set of Sharknado 6?
10:40The day we wrap.
10:43That's when you get to take a bottle of a bath.
10:45You're like, oh God, thank God it's over.
10:48Last great piece of career advice you've gotten?
10:52Just to, you know, believe in yourself and stay strong, because it will come back to you.
10:57Like, life is a roller coaster, and karma, and just everything.
11:01And if you really believe in something hard enough and want it hard enough, you'll get
11:05it, you know?
11:06And I'm also a person that believes that if you put something out there to the universe,
11:10a lot of times, like, you know, people say, well, why didn't that happen?
11:14Like, did you ask it?
11:15You know?
11:16Like, so when you kind of ask the universe for something, they give you a sign back.
11:20Nice.
11:21Worst audition story?
11:24Oh, God.
11:24I was lucky in my life that very early on, after The Big Lebowski, I think, no, after
11:32American Pie was my last edition.
11:34Oh.
11:35And then the rest of all the movies I've done are offers.
11:38But I remember doing The Big Lebowski, I was so nervous, and I thought, I remember seeing
11:42Charlize Theron in the waiting room and Liv Tyler, and I'm like, yeah, right, like, I'm
11:46going to get this.
11:47And I was so nervous, and they're in the room, and I'm like, sitting there, I'm like, blow.
11:51I can't blow that far.
11:52But my leg was shaking like this, like, blow.
11:56I'm like, and they're like, calm down.
11:58And I thought, I walked out, I'm like, I'm never going to get that part.
12:02I'm like, I was shaking like a leaf.
12:03When you're nervous, you can't stop yourself from shaking.
12:05You can't help it.
12:05Say, we were holding the card, you're like this.
12:07Yeah.
12:08You know, and you could see it.
12:09So, you know, and then I thought, oh, no.
12:11And then I got a phone call.
12:13I got the part, and I was like, really?
12:14Like, how?
12:16You know?
12:16But I would say that was, like, the most nerve-wracking, and it actually worked in my favor.
12:20The worst ended up being the best.
12:21Yeah, totally.
12:22It's always like that.
12:23When you think something's going to be great, it's not.
12:26When you think something's going to be terrible, it's not that bad.
12:29You know?
12:29Excellent.
12:30That's an excellent, great piece of advice.
12:32Thank you so much for being here, Tara.
12:34Sharknado 6 out August 19th.
12:37Yay!
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